Investigação / CEGE

Introduction

Founded in 2003, CEGE – Research Centre in Management and Economics - is the research centre that frames the academic research conducted within the Católica Porto Business School of Universidade Católica Portuguesa.

Its mission is to contribute to the advancement of knowledge in economics and management, promoting a culture of excellence in research and disseminating its research results to the scientific community and society in general.

The research carried out within CEGE covers the main scientific areas related to economics and management, divided by the following two research groups:

Management

Economics

The research activity is carried out on the following two strategic research themes:

On this theme, the focus is on processes and performance (including issues of efficiency and effectiveness) in production, namely (but not only) in service provision, as well as how production responds to consumers and how consumers respond to product or service characteristics and delivery strategies.

Finance

Marketing

Consumer behaviour, brand management, international marketing, and social causes.

The research produced by the group has been a mix of theoretical and empirical research, mostly associated with sectors of the economy, namely the public sector (health and education), utilities, digital business, retail sector (including banking), and manufacturing. Although small, this is a highly productive group. All researchers have international connections in various universities like the London Business School, University College Dublin, Aston University, University of Groningen, Manchester Business School, Lancaster University, National Taiwan University, to name but a few.

The main results achieved by the group in terms of research publication are noteworthy and include a large number of published papers in international peer-reviewed journals, several books or book chapters, and a wide number of conference proceedings.

In addition to these academic outcomes, we also highlight other types of outcomes, such as

High number of citations of the group’s work, testifying its considerable impact in the management field;

Considerable impact on society of the group’s work as measured through

(1) newspaper articles written by the members of the MRG or where the group’s research has been reported by others;

(2) appearances on TV;

(3) creation of tangible outputs of applied research,

(4) organization of seminars open to the general public where important topics/research issues are discussed;

High number of funded projects within the group, testifying its dynamism in obtaining research funds from the FCT;

Organization of international workshops/conferences;

Some members belong to the board of international journals or international associations;

A number of keynotes or panel sessions at international conferences were secured by some members of the group;

A number of international prizes were won by group members with their papers and presentations in conferences.

The members of the ERG have produced a large number of papers published in international peer reviewed journals, most of which are indexed either in ISI Web of Knowledge, Scopus or in the Association of Business Schools (ABS) ranking.

Some group members have also developed code for statistical software during this period, and others have engaged in FCT financed projects as leading researchers.

PTDC/EGE-ECO/100296/2008 (overall budget of €36.874, led by CEGE researcher Vasco Rodrigues and including as team participant CEGE researcher Ricardo Gonçalves) – The competitive impact of pseudo-generics

IME/ECO/81882/2006 (€27.000 budget managed by team leader and CEGE researcher Nuno Martins): Social welfare, immigrant population and labour market exclusion

Grant Agreement nr. 290771 (€212.000 budget in partnership, coordinated at the local level by CEGE researcher Américo Mendes): TEPSIE - The theoretical, empirical and policy foundations for building social innovation in Europe

Ferreira, S. & Andrade, A. (2014). Learning Analytics in Practice: Development and Implementation of a Suppport System to the Management of the Teaching Activity. International Journal of Education and Practice, 2(4), pp. 67-95.

Pereira, M. M. & Melão, N. (2012). The implementation of the balanced scorecard in a school district: Lessons learned from an action research study. International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, 61 (8), pp. 919-939. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/17410401211277156

Working Papers

Events

Every semester, the School organises an internal conference for faculty. This conference is an opportunity to share research results and involve undergraduate and graduate students in ongoing research projects. As such, one of its objectives is to allow for the creation of research networks, which are essential in order to foster scientific research.

Here you will find the papers presented in the previous 10 conferences. The next (11th) conference will take place at the end of May 2017.

Theory and Practice of Efficiency and Productivity Measurement

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Also, at CEGE, we are always willing to talk to researchers who wish to carry out research work in cooperation with us. These collaborations may be informal or formal, with a short or longer duration, so if you are interested, do get in touch with us.